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If I have a string variable that contains the "name" of another
variable. How can I access that other variable for both assignment
and evaluation?
e.g.
x = 100
nameofvar = "x"
I want to set the value of the variable specified by nameofvar and
also get it's value.
Seems like some sort of reflection calls would be needed for this...

Hi --
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, rlaferla wrote:
> I want to set the value of the variable specified by nameofvar and> also get it's value.>> Seems like some sort of reflection calls would be needed for this...
There's eval, but in almost seven years of Ruby program I have never
needed to do that, and would be very surprised if it were really a
good idea. Anyway, that wasn't your question, so I'll leave it at
that :-)
David
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